Improvement in flower-pot



E. WHITMAN. FLOWER POT.

No 82,052. Patented se ta, 1868.

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EPHRAIM WHITMAN, OF FITOHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 82,052, dated September 8, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOWER-POT.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

- Be it known that I, Ernnsnuwnrmmgof Fitchburg, in the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Flower-Pot; and I do hereby declare that the following,'taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of thisepecification, isa description of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it.

"- Ordinarily, earthenware pots for cultivating plants are well known, the most common article being made of unglazed, porous, pottery clay, frusto-conical in form, open at top, and closed at bottom, with the exception of a small hole left for drainage.

This pottery is a rapid conductor of heat and moisture, and many plants potted therein cannot be safely exposed to sun and air, and in all earthenware pots, plants sufi'er more or less from excess of water, if poured directly upon the pot-contained earth. A

invention has reference to the construction of a flower-pot, with a surrounding'and wall-enclosed narrow chamber, which operates, not only as a non-conducting air-space, but as afiuidgeservoir, for receiving the plantfeeding water, the inner and outer walls being connected and relatively fixed.

The drawings representacentralsection anda'plan' ofmy. improud flower-pot.

a denotes the plant-containing vessel, which may be made in form n013plikethe.commonfiovver-pot, and which may be formed'of the common flower-pot clay. V

This vessel is placed within another and larger vessel, 6, which is separated from the vessel a by an interveuing space, 0. I

The pot is shown as having a,- bottom, :1, common to both vessels, this bottom having through its centre, if desirable, a. drainage-hole,f.

Connecting the two vessels at 6 together, are ties 'or bridges g, which prevent any movement of either vessel relatively to the other, those pieces 9 being preferably formed of the same clay as are the vessels or walls a b, and being placed in position while the whole material is in a plastic condition, so that the walls and ties are integral.

The pot being thus made, it will readily be seen that the roots of a plant growing in earth placed in the pot a are always protected from direct action of sun and air striking upon the outer surface of the pot, and that the intervening space 0 constitutes a water-receiving and containing reservoir, through which water willonly percolnte in sufiicient quantity for the proper requirements of'the plant.

The vessel O en; maybe glpggd upon its outer surface, but the inner vess l a must be orous.

The chamber a may he suribhiidsa by a cap-ring, 5, loosely fitting upon thepmi g place by a. lip,

k, or short projection, extending down'slightly into the chamber, this cap being useful, especially in pottinga plant, to'keep the earth fromfalling into the chamber, andfor giving a finished upper edge tothe pot.

The form and size of thmth Tliick ile s s ol"walls, and the breadth of the chamber 0, may all of course be varied, 015mg to'the nature of the plants to be potted, or the-degree of ornamentation desired.

With small flower-pots, the ties 9 may hedispensed with, as the union of the outer to the inner pot, at the bottom, will be sufiicient to maintain the two in relative position but with large pots, I p'ret'er to add the ties.

I claim; as a new article of manufacture-- A'flower-pon made with inner and outer walls, at, and an intervening water-space c, the walls a 6 being connected or relatively fixed in position, substantially as shown and described.

I also claim, in combination with the water-chamber c, the cap-ring 2', substantially as shown and described.

EPHRAIM WHITMAN.

Witnesses:

Aueusrmn S. WHITMAN, HERBERT W. WYMAN. 

